DEBIAN-CVE-2026-119206: High severity debian/pypdf vulnerability
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.21.3, pypdf can take excessive time to retrieve page labels from a crafted PDF containing a flat page-label number tree with many ranges. The pagelabels property resolves each page independently and repeatedly scans the same /Nums array from the beginning, causing work to grow with both the page count and the number of label ranges. This issue is fixed in version 6.21.3.
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Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
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pypdfto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 6.21.3